Cracker crumbs stuck to his tie and broccoli to his teeth as Dr. Taylor told me his story. “She grew up in...
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Cracker crumbs stuck to his tie and broccoli to his teeth as Dr. Taylor told me his story. “She grew up in...
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“Let each one examine his own work, and then he will have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another” (Galatians 6:4,...
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It was November of 2001—November 5 to be exact. Sixteen years ago! That was the last time and the only other time...
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Grasping in the dark for my phone, my terrified mind sought to force my trembling fingers to dial 911. It took hours...
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Emotions are a mysterious phenomenon. Think about it. A person’s smile has the power to make you feel something pleasant inside. A...
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Besides things like rolling my brother down a hill in a cardboard barrel and convincing my sister to ride our pet goat like a horse, a lot of my childhood memories are framed around stories. Some…
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I was a baby Christian, just a few weeks old, when asked why I still listened to rock ‘n’ roll music. My...
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Pretty ugly, deafeningly quiet, make haste slowly, and vegetarian meatballs are great examples of oxymorons that make you smile when you think...
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Every ARISE class is a miracle. And not just a miracle, but miracles upon miracles. Like a cluster of delicious grapes, each...
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Adventism is Protestant. And yet there is something about us that makes us weird. Hardly anything Adventism believes is uniquely Adventist. So...
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It’s 6 AM and already 17 new emails have appeared in my inbox. No, wait, four more just arrived, so make that...
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From dead seas to living ones, embedded in white veins in the depths of the earth to its surface, salt is one...
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